Word: profitable
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...same building where a new Harvard Club of Boston exists and is designed to serve the alumni (one of the groups the Coop has served since 1898) and their needs. The downtown Boston store, because of the absence of profitless textbook sales, provides a higher margin of profit and benefits everybody's rebate...
...Goose belongs at present to the Aero Club of Southern California, a non-profit aviation group. Early next year it is scheduled for exhibition by the Wrather Corp., which also owns the Queen Mary, in a huge geodesic dome at Long Beach. That sounds fine, a dignified last berth for a plane too noble to break up for scrap. But here is what tickles the short hairs on the back of the neck: some time this summer, Wrather executives plan to taxi the Goose, under its own mighty power, to the dome site. The pilot in charge will have strict...
...tests as Catholic school seniors. While public and private college-bound programs may yield comparable results, Coleman insists that the school systems on the whole are not equal, if only because public schools channel so many students into nonacademic programs. In that practice and others, public schools can profit by private school experience. Said Columbia University Education Professor Diane Ravitch: "Coleman suggests a model in which the climate of learning is conditioned by good behavior and effective discipline. There are powerful lessons to be learned by public educators from these papers...
...announcement marked the birth of Harvard Real Estate (HRE), a non-profit real estate management company with control over all non-academic housing owned by the University...
...entire nation. Our appetite for large and expensive gas-guzzlers has for too long been fed by the pipe dream of cheap gasoline prices. In fact, expectations during the '70s that oil would remain cheap stymied Detroit's efforts to sell an array of smaller models at a profit. The Japanese have shown us that we no longer possess a monopoly on technological creativity and innovation. Spurred by the Japanese example, the American spirit of cooperation and enterprise can come through when put to the test...